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Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin43fiel (find matches)
Year: 1966-1972 (1960s)
Authors: Field Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history; Science
Publisher: (Chicago) : The Museum
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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is done by phone usually; from overseas it is done by telegraphing SATELLITES NEW YORK. The event reported is evaluated at the Center by a team which judges whether it is truly a short-lived phenomenon (correspondents occasionally are carried away in their zeal and make poor choices of events to report). A notice is then written and run off on 3x5 cards by a high-speed printer and sent off airmail to the subscription mailing list within a few hours of the time of the event. The subscribers represent a large range of interests and disciplines: astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, physicians, geophysicists, teachers, students, statisticians, government agencies, libraries, zoologists. Depending on the nature of each subscriber's activity, he may subscribe for immediate reports, weekly summary reports, or monthly summaries.
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Photo courtesy of Panamin Research Center, Manila. Phlhppines. Subscribers may elect to receive reports in any or all of four major categories: (1) earth sciences, (2) astrophysical sciences, (3) archaeological/anthropological sciences, and (4) biological sciences. The results have been most gratifying. Every year between 150 and 250 reports are issued. Some examples follow. Over the past several years three groups of primitive peoples have been discovered in isolated regions (in Surinam, Paraguay, and the Philippine Islands) and reported to professional anthropologists within days of the discoveries. This permitted small numbers of anthropologists to go in and make observations before excessive contacts with the civilized world would cause alterations in the primitive state and life patterns of these several peoples. EVENT 67-71 "TASADAY HANUBE" TRIBE DISCOVERY An account of the discovery of a tribe thought to have been cut off from the outside world for at least hundreds of years was compiled and reported by Manuel Elizalde, Jr. held of the Presidential Arm on National Minorities-PANAMIN--with the collaboration of Dr, Robert B. Fox, Chief anthropologist of the National Museum and Director of PANAMIN research. Contact with the "Tasaday Manube" tribe, living in a rain forest about 3,000 feet up Tasaday Mt. of South Cotabato Province on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, was made by helicopter June 7-8 and June 16. The Tasaday were described as having no Isnowledqe of rice, corn, salt, sugar or pottery; no contact with the sea (their language has no word for the sea); spealting a unique tongue related to that of Manubo neighboring tribes. They were described as food gatherers and trao- pers whose technology was still based on the use of stone tools. Fox described them as southern mongoloid with a cultural appearance basic to early peoples in the Phil- ippines. The Tasadays' greatest fear appeared to be epidemic sickness. The tribesmen recalled a plaque of smallpox they call fugu. The Tasadays drape palm leaves over tree limbs for shelters and weave floor matting. They live in informal family groups with no apparent leaders, making group decisions--usually concerning food gathering, in open discussions. People who die of old age or accidents are buried where they die. Sick people may be abandoned. DATE OF OCCURRENCE SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE, MINDANAO ISI ANO, PHII IPPINFS 12 JULY 1971 1253. EVENT NOTIFICATION REPORT TYPE OF EVENT LOCATION OF EVENT TASADAY MOUNTAIN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATES OF COWTACT JUNE 7-8 S 16. REPORTING SOURCE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, PHILIPPINES SOURCE CONTACT MANUEL ELIZALDE, JR. HEAD OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ARM ON NATIONAL MINOR- ITIES, PANAMIN, S DR. ROBERT B. FOX, CHIEF ANTHROPOLOGIST, NATIONAL MUSEUM i DIR.PANAMIN RESH..HANILA.PHILâ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION I FMIR H'R SHORT I U 11> PtOMlMINA <,l l,âJ(n â w.crl ( AMhRIIX.F MASSA( HlMrP. ti:HR I smnMAllSl)t AMfHUA ae.t Sa'fLLi'ES NE ⢠TOO" â f . (PHONE - e&4- In August of 1970 a large lake (Lake Linda) located on the Lemon Creek glacial field near Juneau, Alaska October 1972

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